About DAHA

Before joining Standing Together as CEO, Guddy worked at Peabody Housing Association for nearly 11 years, first as Community Safety Manager, then as a Senior Business Partner for Domestic Abuse.

Guddy has trained over 43 Housing Providers nationally and is the housing representative for the National Violence Against Women’s and Girls stakeholder panel hosted by the Home Office.

She has spoken at International conferences in Czechoslovakia, Brighton, Belfast, Taiwan and the Hague about her work in housing and domestic abuse. She is a trustee of AVA and a 2016 Winston Churchill Fellow and was shortlisted for Red Magazine's Pioneering Woman of the year Award 2016.

Nicole became the UK's first Designate Commissioner for Domestic Abuse in 2019, ending her 5 year term as CEO of Standing Together. 

In 1997, she came to London and helped set up ADVANCE, one of the first IDVA services in the UK.

In 2000, she began working at Standing Together to expand the CCR approach into health settings. After returning to the UK following two years at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University, she worked for SafeLives, Refuge and her own freelance business before returning to Standing Together.

Meghan is a certified IDVA and managed a frontline service in West London before becoming the Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Coordinator for Kensington & Chelsea. Meghan then worked for Standing Together where she was the Housing Services Coordinator, chaired DHRs and published Turning Points, which examines the impact of a coordinated community response on survivors of domestic abuse. During this time, Meghan co-founded the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance.

From 2013-2015, Meghan worked for Kensington &Chelsea Council as the European Communities Against Trafficking (ECAT) Project Manager and the Tri-Borough VAWG Transformation Lead. From 2015-2017, she was the Tri-Borough VAWG Strategic Lead, where she acted as lead commissioner, strategist and partnership director. 

Currently, Meghan is an independent collaboration consultant, working with a number of strategic partnerships, local authorities and charitable consortiums to improve their approach to ending violence against women and girls via a Coordinated Community Response. Meghan has BAs in Spanish and Philosophy and an MA in Gender and Cultural Studies.

Kelly is Managing Director of social enterprise, Addressing Domestic Abuse. She has a wide range of housing experience including Director of Housing (interim), asylum support, managing a local authority Supporting People Programme and roles in housing policy and research.

A chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, Kelly holds a Masters’ degree in Housing Policy and Management and a PhD from Durham University on ‘The role of housing in a co-ordinated community response to domestic abuse’. After co-founding DAHA, Kelly worked with a national property repairs organisation to embed recognition of domestic abuse into the daily work of trade operatives and continues to work with property companies to support and train them to recognise domestic abuse via repairs.

Kelly was named 24 Housing’s ‘Housing Professional of the Year’ for her work and research on housing and domestic abuse and named in the top 20 women leaders in Housing in 2020. That same year she co-authored Housing and Domestic Abuse – Policy into Practice (Routledge).

Kelly is an honorary research fellow at Durham University, currently working on Government funded research on perpetrator interventions. She previously led a Home Office funded multi police force project, Domestic Abuse: A Whole Systems Approach which included overseeing research into the provision of a national response to perpetrators of domestic abuse. Kelly is a judge in the 2022 UK Housing Awards, a non-Executive Director of Believe Housing, and a trustee of the Alice Ruggles Trust.